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Re: [O] Bug: org-read-date: problem with year in dotted european date in


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] Bug: org-read-date: problem with year in dotted european date input [7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-436-g9b11e6 @ /home/grfz/src/org-mode/lisp/)]
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:39:13 +0200

I fixed the documentation.

- Carsten

On 14.10.2012, at 09:57, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Org used to have the ambition to parse a date in the middle of a text,
>> and this six what you are seeing in the documentation. However, over
>> time more and more different requests came in, to parse ISO weeks,
>> European dates and more.  Also we want to allow incomplete dates like
>> leaving out a year etc.  I still think Org does a pretty god job
>> there.  However, to be reasonably predictable we did have o restrict
>> matching of special dates to the beginning of the string, and this is
>> what you and Nicolas are now seeing.
> 
> It may be worth specifying that restriction in the documentation. As
> Gregor pointed out
> 
>    But it will in fact accept any string containing some date
>  and/or time information, and it is really smart about interpreting your
>  input.
> 
> is misleading.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou




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